At some point or another, most software developers find themselves at a career crossroads. In one direction is comfort, ease, and predictability. In the other? Challenge, intention, and responsibility. (And, yes, higher salaries to go along with them.) That second route is what happens when developers start to think more deeply about the systems behind ...
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22 Apr
15 Apr
While some commentators in tech say that microservices architecture has seen its heyday, in reality, it’s still foundational to some massive distributed digital systems, from Netflix, to Amazon, SoundCloud, and beyond. But how exactly do you operationalize thousands of distributed microservices living in various environments? Successful microservices adoption tales often revolve around using service mesh, ...
1 Apr
In October 2025, Anthropic released Agent Skills as a feature for Claude. Within two months, early Agentic Skills had been built by partners like Atlassian, Figma, Canva, Stripe, Notion, and Zapier. How did a brand-new feature evolve into a pattern adopted so quickly across the enterprise? The rapid ascent of agent skills speaks to their ...
24 Mar
On January 7, 2026, Dr. Wayne Liu, president and chief growth officer of Perfect Corp., delivered a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) titled “API-First Innovation: Scalable AI for the Modern Beauty Shopper,” discussing the many different ways that AI is impacting the beauty industry. In the process, he makes a case for our ...
17 Mar
If you build distributed applications, you’re likely already familiar with microservices. While the definition varies across the tech industry, I prefer the one from Sam Newman’s book Building Microservices. In it, he concisely describes microservices as “small, autonomous services that work together.” The concepts of microservices have been around for about fifteen years now. However, ...
4 Mar
The evolution of the modern enterprise is often marked by a transition from streamlined simplicity to architectural fragmentation. What begins as a strategic move toward distributed systems frequently devolves into gateway sprawl, a phenomenon where decentralized business units adopt distinct API tools based on localized budgets, engineering preferences, or specific technical requirements. While this flexibility ...
18 Feb
As APIs scale and organizations structure complex systems, it’s almost inevitable that some enterprises are going to end up with more than one API gateway. Sometimes this is intentional — especially when those gateways represent different environments, segmented data services across regions, or different teams and thus different focuses. More often, however, this is just ...
10 Feb
A product manager at a mid-sized SaaS company notices a familiar pattern. The mobile app team is blocked waiting for a backend change, the data team has built its own undocumented endpoints to move faster, and the DevOps team is fielding late-night incidents caused by services calling each other in unexpected ways. Each team is ...
5 Feb
Building API-first is an incredibly powerful strategy — it brings a ton of value to organizations seeking to make their data and APIs more consumable, more useful, and more valuable. Interestingly, however, it seems like API-first has another huge benefit: AI-first. So what does it mean to be API-first, and what benefits does this carry ...
3 Feb
Imagine you’re a developer working with multiple AI agents based on large language models (LLMs). On Monday morning, your client asks you to connect an AI coding assistant to access GitHub issues, Jira tickets, and internal documentation via MCP-powered tools. That’s where a centralized MCP tool registry comes into play. Instead of spending hours browsing ...
28 Jan
In December 2025, roughly 14,000 Stranger Things fans experienced their worst nightmare. No, Vecna didn’t rise up to pull Hawkins, Indiana, into the Upside Down. Even worse, thousands of fans signed onto Netflix to watch the conclusion of the series they’d dedicated the last decade of their lives to, only to have the world’s largest ...
31 Dec 2025
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) was published in November 2024 and has seen tremendous success and adoption. That is not a big surprise, as AI is still very much trending, and MCP has turned into the glue that allows LLM-based applications to interact with resources and tools. Without MCP, LLMs remain in their closed worlds ...
16 Dec 2025
With their usage increasing by more than 50% since the start of the pandemic, it’s clear that eSignatures (and eSignature APIs) are here to stay. As we edge closer and closer towards a paperless world, public perception of electronic signatures has moved from “are those even legally binding?” to something used for everything from sending ...
4 Dec 2025
Technology is only as useful as it is usable. Users will only discover a product’s innovative features if it’s designed well enough for a user to first find and then use them. This is just as true with agentic AI as anything else — even if the agent’s doing a good portion of the work. ...
6 Nov 2025
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Apps and digital tools need to have the best possible design, as it will influence not only how users feel about your product but the brand itself. In fact, brands with good design are thought to be more trustworthy, with nearly half of users ...
29 Oct 2025
Supply chain management has never been more important. With the business world and global economy in such a state of constant flux, it’s imperative that business owners find every conceivable way to make their businesses competitive, innovative, and efficient. Failure to do so could result in losing a lifelong customer to a competitor, who’s often ...
16 Oct 2025
Translating physical reality into digital data that’s understandable and consumable by machines is one of the most persistent roadblocks in digital transformation. You can have all the automation, data processing, and filtering in the world, and it won’t make a difference if you’re still performing manual data entry. Computer vision is an essential part of ...
7 Oct 2025
You may have heard it repeatedly that “API sprawl is the new shadow IT.” But what does that actually mean? Where is this problem coming from? What does this practically mean in the age of AI? And more importantly, how pervasive is this problem across the API industry? Today, we’re going to look at the ...
3 Oct 2025
In January 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services updated The CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Act. The new revision outlines requirements and specifications for what information medical providers need to provide, as well as how it should be formatted to ensure API security and data compliance. This is towards the goal of improving ...